The Poplar Field Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCAA DDEE FFGG HHI| 'The poplars are fell'd farewell to the shade | A |
| And the whispering sound of the cool colonnade | A |
| The winds play no longer and sing in the leaves | B |
| Nor Ouse on his bosom their image receives | B |
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| 'Twelve years have elapsed since I last took a view | C |
| Of my favourite field and the bank where they grew | C |
| And now in the grass behold they are laid | A |
| And the tree is my seat that once lent me a shade | A |
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| 'The blackbird has fled to another retreat | D |
| Where the hazels afford him a screen from the heat | D |
| And the scene where his melody charm'd me before | E |
| Resounds with his sweet flowing ditty no more | E |
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| 'My fugitive years are all hasting away | F |
| And I must ere long lie as lowly as they | F |
| With a turf on my breast and a stone at my head | G |
| Ere another such grove shall arise in its stead | G |
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| ''Tis a sight to engage me if anything can | H |
| To muse on the perishing pleasures of man | H |
| Tho' his life be a dream his enjoyments I see | I |
| Have a being less durable even than he ' | - |
Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton
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